Adam And Powis' Farmhouse

Adam and Powis' Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The house has a four-bay range that faces southwest, featuring an external stack at the rear of the second bay from the right end and an 18th or 19th-century external stack at the left end. There is also a 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension beyond the left end. A wing was added to the rear of the right bay around 1965, which includes a 19th-century stack at the junction. The rear of the main range has a single-storey extension that forms a catslide roof. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range of 20th-century casements, with a 20th-century door located in the right rear wing. The left gable is tile-hung above the lean-to, and the right end of the roof is hipped.

Inside, the farmhouse features jowled posts and straight rising braces within heavy studding, which are not trenched. The right bay contains a chamfered axial beam and exposed plain joists with a vertical section. The next bay has a transverse straight stair and plain joists of square section arranged longitudinally. The third bay includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and the joists are plastered to the soffits. Between these bays, the heavy studs of a partition wall are exposed, with some reused and some nailed. The original large hearth in this bay has been significantly altered in the 20th century using 18th-century bricks. The left bay is occupied separately and was not inspected. The roof features clasped purlins with straight wind-braces, similar to the wall construction, and retains much original wattle and daub infill in the studded partitions. The roof of the right bay has been rebuilt with a hip and a ridge, and subsidence at this end, which has now been arrested, has left a large tapering gap between the end tie-beam and the base of the roof, filled with timber. This house is noted to have been described as "newly erected" in 1610 in the Petre archives at the Essex Record Office; the style of construction aligns with this date, although the plan form is typical of the period.